10.30 p.m.: Official: 2 terror suspects in French standoff came out shooting before being killed by police.
10.05 p.m.: Police official: Suspects in Charlie Hebdo massacre killed, hostage freed.
9.55 p.m. : Explosions, gunshots heard at the Paris kosher market where gunman has at least 5 hostages.
9.50 p.m.: Explosions and gunshots rang out and smoke rose outside a building where two brothers suspected in a newspaper massacre are holed up with a hostage. Security forces had surrounded the building for most of the day Friday, cornering the suspects in the killings at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris this week. Police SWAT forces could be seen on the roof of the building
9.35 p.m.: Gunshots heard at printing plant northeast of Paris where 2 brothers have taken a hostage
8:16 pm: Police order all shops closed in famed Jewish neighborhood in central Paris far from attacks.
7.50 pm: PM Netanyahu orders Israeli MFA & Mossad to give French government all the assistance needed.
7.35 pm: Prime Minister Narendra Modi strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Paris and conveyed condolences on behalf of the people of India in a telephone conversation with French President Francois Hollande on Friday.
7.33 pm: Police official says man who opened fire in Paris market declares "you know who I am."
7.27 pm: One person seriously wounded, 6 taken hostage in incident at Paris supermarket
7.20 pm: Hostage-taker at Paris market is suspect in slaying of policewoman on Thursday
6.42 pm: The French President ordered the country’s top security official to the scene
6.40 pm: A police official said there are multiple hostages and wounded at the scene.
6.35 pm: Several people taken hostage at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris after a shootout involving a man armed with two guns
6.18 pm: Reports: Gunfire at store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris
5:54 pm: Authorities evacuate a nearby school after the suspects agreed by phone to allow the children safe passage
5:35 pm: The town appealed to residents to stay inside their houses.
5.10 pm: Phone contact has been made with suspects holding hostage
4:53 pm: Policewoman killing linked to massacre brothers: police
4:42 pm: One of two suspects met leading al-Qaeda preacher Anwar al Awlaki during a stay in Yemen in 2011
4.35 pm: One of the men had been convicted of terrorism charges in 2008, and a U.S. official said both suspects were on the American no-fly list.
4.32 pm: Hospitals in Dammartin-en-Goele ready to receive patients in case causalities result from police operation
4.30 pm: Charles de Gaulle airport: Flights arriving approximately 15 minutes late due to standoff
4.22 pm: Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten will not republish Charlie Hebdo's Prophet cartoons due to security concerns
4.12 pm: French media report that suspects "prepared to die as martyrs" as they tell police after making contact
4.10 pm: Christelle Alleume, a resident: “We had orders to turn off the lights and not approach the windows.”
4.07 pm: Report: Suspect who shot at female police officer on Thursday in Paris knew Charlie Hebdo attack suspects
4.00 pm: Suspects are inside a printing house near the airport
3.58 pm: All residents are requested to remain at home. Children are to be kept safe in school
3.52 pm: French President Hollande addresses the media: “We must do everything possible to ensure the protection of our country.”
3.44 pm: Journalists asked to to refrain from filming the scene in Dammartin-en-Goele to avoid revealing police positions
3.42 pm: An airport spokesman said the flight diversions are not affecting schedules
3.40 pm: Charles de Gaulle airport has closed two runways to arrivals
3.25 pm: A French interior ministry spokesman says the're "almost certain" that the Dammartin-en-Goele hostage takers are the Charlie Hebdo suspects
3.20 pm: Residents of Dammartin-en-Goele asked to stay indoors: reports
3.18 pm: Police block all access to town where gunmen believed to have taken at least one hostage
3.15 pm: PM says France 'at war' with terrorism, not religion
3.10 pm: Police cordon off Dammartin-en-Goele, operation to neutralise attackers
2.55 pm: Reports say police have begun negotiating with attackers
2.54 pm: Dozens of ambulances rushed to Dammartin-en-Goele
2.52 pm: Paris prosecutor's office denies report one person killed in shootout in Dammartin-en-Goele
2.50 pm: Flights abort landing at Charles-de-Gaulle due to shooting near airport
2.48 pm: Reports say police entering negotiations with Charlie Hebdo attackers
2.47 pm: French President François Hollande briefed on hostage situation in Paris suburb.
2.46 pm: Media report: At least one killed, several injured during shootout with attackers
2.45 pm: U.S. and European sources say one of the attackers was in Yemen in 2011 for several months training with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
2.42 pm: A police source said the two suspects had been sighted in the town, where at least one person was taken hostage.
2.40 pm: It was not immediately clear how many people were being held hostage, according to a police source
2.37 pm: French police convoy, helicopters rush to scene of operation to detain attackers
2.35 pm: Two people seriously injured in shootout before hostage situation northeast of Paris
2.30 pm: Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve holds emergency meeting with the President, PM and top police official.
2.25 pm: The two attackers stole a Peugeot on Friday morning in the town of Montagny Sainte Felicite, about 50 km northeast of Paris.
2.20 pm: Shots fired, hostages taken in manhunt for Charlie Hebdo attackers, police say.
2.15 pm: French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the operation to detain Charlie Hebdo shooting suspects now underway north-east of Paris.
2.10 pm: The source added that police were chasing a vehicle on the nearby A2 motorway.
2.05 pm: Gunshots rang out on Friday in the French town of Dammartin-en-Goele, some 40 km from the scene of where police had been hunting two suspects in the killings of 12 people at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, a police source said.
All you need to know on Paris shootings:
>Recent security incidents in France
- ›Dec. 1, 2007 - Gunmen suspected of belonging to Basque separatist group ETA kill two Spanish policemen working undercover in France.
- ›Jan. 11, 2009 - Arsonists use fire bombs to attack a synagogue near Paris and a place of worship in Strasbourg.
- ›Nov. 10, 2010 - Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux announces the arrest of five French nationals suspected of conspiring to launch a terror attack in France.
- ›November 2011 - A firebomb attack guts the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo after it put an image of the Prophet Mohammad on its cover.
- ›March 2012 - Mohamed Merah, an al Qaeda-inspired gunman, kills seven people in three separate shootings in Toulouse. Victims included three soldiers of North African origin, a rabbi and his two young children.
- ›December 2014 - A man shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) injures 13 by ramming a vehicle into a crowd in the eastern city of Dijon. Prime Minister Manuel Valls says France has "never before faced such a high threat linked to terrorism".